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Y3K Tutor In Your Home’s Keeping Skills Over the Summer Tip #4:
Join us for some summer learning. Y3K Tutor In Your Home offers personalized, one-on-one tutoring in the convenience of your home for students of all ages. Our summer tutoring is a great way to keep students learning and prevent any summer regression.
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Y3K Tutor In Your Home’s Keeping Skills Over the Summer Tip #3:
Continue to read. Have your child read for 30 minutes each day. If your child needs some inspiration, check out the summer reading programs at your local library. They often offer younger children prizes for completing certain amounts of reading.
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Y3K Tutor In Your Home will offer simple tips you can do over the next several posts.
Y3K Tutor In Your Home’s Keeping Skills Over the Summer Tip #1:
Keep writing. Encourage your child to write emails, letters and keep a journal of fun activities. Support your child’s creativity by not focusing on editing mistakes. Make it fun which in turn will give your child an opportunity to practice writing.
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If your child goes tubing, there are certain precautions the adult boat driver should take. Adults should be alert to how wide the tube is swinging out from the wake. Look for possible obstacles for collisions. Boat drivers should slow down when towing tubes. Children riding in tubes can’t make changes in direction and when towed at higher speeds, the tube tends to whip wide outside the boat’s wake.
Tomorrow we will look at how kids can protect themselves while tubing.
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Nearly half of all injuries to children in boating accidents come from towed tubes also known as tubing. When these injuries occur, they tend to be severe. Injuries to children in tubing accidents came from impact with objects, the tow rope or the propeller.
How can your children go tubing without major injuries? Come back tomorrow.
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Never leave dogs or children in a parked car. This is true even for a quick errand and even if the windows are cracked open on a warm day.
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Schools have been preparing for shootings like the one yesterday in Troutdale, Oregon. Due to the tragic Newtown, CT school shootings, some local cities and towns are keeping security in mind as they design new school buildings. For example, Newton, MA’s new Angier Elementary School building was supposed to have their kindergarten classrooms on the ground floor so these smaller kids could have easier access. After the Sandy Hook shootings, the City of Newton decided to move all classrooms at the Angier Elementary School to the second and third floors.
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Helmets prevent 85% of head injuries. Have your child wear a helmet any time they are on wheels. This is true whether it is a bike, scooter, roller skates, inline skates or skateboard.
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Some schools around the country have been raising the sports eligibility standards. For example the Natick Public Schools in Natick, MA have raised the academic standards for its athletes. They decided to send a message to student athletes that academics come first. If a student doesn’t pass all of their classes, they lose eligibility. As a result of the increased academic demands, 43 students out of more than 500 were deemed ineligible due to failing a class or receiving an incomplete. Previously Natick averaged 6 to 9 academically ineligible students per term. The intended result is to put the emphasis on having their education be their first priority.
Students who are removed from teams have to meet with coaches, guidance counselor, and parents to come up with an improvement plan. These students are then ineligible for the remainder of the term as well as the following term.
What do you think of these new rules?
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Divorce can devastate children and sometimes may be avoided. Scientists asked both men and women why they argue with their spouses. Of the list of reasons each group gave, both sides cited “money” the most. Parents can cut down on financial conflicts by dividing money into three accounts: “yours”, “mine”, and “ours”. Another way parents can avoid fights and possibly prevent divorce is to hold quarterly meetings to discuss finances. Additionally, some parents also find that signing a prenuptial agreement prior to getting married can make the financial side of things a little bit easier. Although prenups might not sound particularly glamorous or romantic, they can make it much easier to divide assets fairly during a divorce.
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